Shrinking forest shrinks skink: Morphological change in response to rainforest fragmentation in the prickly forest skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 159-167

  Sumner, Joanna ^a   Moritz, Craig ^a   Shine, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Demographic changes; Edge effects; Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae; Habitat fragmentation; Morphological changes; North Queensland; Prickly forest skink; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; RAINFOREST;

AUSTRALIA;

GNYPETOSCINCUS QUEENSLANDIAE;

EID: 0032694542     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00089-0     Document Type: Article

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